Kahil El’Zabar Quartet | A Time For Healing
Kahil El’Zabar delivers yet another epic double LP’s worth of ancient/future music for the mind, body and soul. From swinging jazz that sings of his Chicago pedigree, to talking drums and soothing spiritual grooves that reconnect Black Classical Music with its African roots. Multi-percussionist, band-leader, vocalist, composer, conductor and educator, Kahil El’Zabar has been at […]
Unknown To Known | Live at the Crypt
Unknown to Known offers an intimate dialogue of meandering melodies and textural grooves over resounding harmonic landscapes. At times euphoric and often dynamic, this music is always interactive, honest and raw. Following the release of their first EP “Portico” which found support from music lovers and DJs worldwide including the likes of Gilles Peterson, “Live […]
Houeida Hedfi | Fleuves de l’Âme
Originally a percussionist, Hedfi first met Dreijer when he visited Tunisia and produced her contribution to a 2011 compilation of female Tunisian artists. This kindled a nine-year collaboration which culminates in ‘Fleuves de l’Âme’, an elegant marriage of traditional folk music and contemporary sound design drawing references from Hedfi’s drumming expertise and the textures of Tunisian music […]
bklyn | favourite things 12.21
bklyn favourite things 12.21 – Gabriels, Jamire Williams feat. Corey King, Oscar #Worldpeace, Curren$y, Teis Ortved, Delphi, Wandl, Lance Skiiiwalker feat. SiR, Mackwood, Radius, Tristan de Liege & Ash Walker, Nick Walters, Soul Sugar feat. Booker Gee & Blundetto, Embryo, Dexter & Yosa Peit, Awkward Corners & Hector Plimmer Remix, feat. Tamar Osborn, Nubya Garcia […]
IAMPAUL | Loose Thoughts
After the release of “DaydreamNightwalk” EP back in 2018, “Loose Thoughts” is IAMPAUL’s new instrumental beat-jazz/fusion album. All instruments played, arranged and mixed by himself. Loose Thoughts by IAMPAUL
Shay Hazan | Reclusive Rituals
The multi-talented Shay Hazan fuses rubbery North African Gnawa grooves, with haunting jazz horns and hip hop inflected beats on ‘Reclusive Rituals’. His first project for international groove artisans, Batov Records. Tel-Aviv based musician Shay Hazan is a composer, producer, bassist & bandleader. His versatile bass is frequently heard on national radio, providing the hits […]
Jeff Parker | Forfolks
Jeff Parker’s Forfolks – a new album of solo guitar tracks – released via International Anthem and Nonesuch Records. The album features interpretations of Thelonious Monk’s “Ugly Beauty” and the standard “My Ideal,” as well as six original compositions, including “Four Folks” (a piece Parker first wrote and recorded in 1995) and “La Jetée” (a […]
bklyn | favourite things 11.21
The Brkn Record, Apifera, Àbáse, , Alfa Mist, Scrimshire feat. Miryam Solomon, Awkward Corners feat. Tamar Osborn, Chip Wickham, Bobby Oroza feat. Cold Diamond & Mink, El Michels Affair feat. Piya Malik, Betamax Vs Clive Bell, Miryam Solomon, Jeff Parker, Shay Hazan, Koma Saxo & Petter Eldh feat. Christian Lillinger, Ben LaMar Gay, Daedelus & […]
Wadada Leo Smith & Henry Kaiser | Pacifica Koral Reef
“I’m supposed to be writing about Pacifica Koral Reef, this record that I’ve made with my friend Henry Kaiser and his friend Wadada Leo Smith. And while the music it contains is, for me, a miraculous late-career achievement after 50 years of mostly playing in alternative rock bands, writing about it is a downright odd […]
Nick Walters | Singularity
Nick Walters returns to his D.O.T. Records imprint with a suite of forward thinking, cosmic, electronic-jazz experiments, inspired by NASA & the concept of gravitational singularity. Each track on “Singularity”, his first home studio produced album, is built around an audio sample recorded by NASA in space, then expertly transported back to earth by Walters […]
Scrimshire | Nothing Feels Like Everything
Adam Scrimshire’s latest full-lenbth excursion – the Albert’s Favourites founder’s third in as many years, is an expansive, adventurous and entertaining affair, with a string of guest vocalists and musicians swinging by to lend a hand. After opening with a touch of Rotary Connection-inspired brilliance featuring Cleveland Watkiss (‘The Pile’), Scrimshsire sashays between soft-focus, semi-acoustic […]
Coldcut & Mixmaster Morris | @0
The release includes new compositions and remixes of music by Imogen Heap, James Heather, Specimens, Nailah Hunter, Coldcut and more. Ninja Tune will be donating their share (50% of net receipts) to three charities: CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), Mind and Black Minds Matter. Launched with a double single—Suzanne Ciani’s “Morning Spring” & Kaitlyn Aurelia […]
Embryo | Auf Auf
The late Christian Burchard, who founded the Embryo ensemble in 1969, loved the slogan “Auf Auf,” German for “Up, Up,” or “Keep On Going.” Anyone with anything more than a passing interest in the German Krautock scene of the 1970s and 1980s knows that Burchard followed that intent all around the world, tirelessly seeking out […]
Unknown To Known | Portico
Improvised extracts from our first encounter in July 2021. Portico Gallery, South London. This group is a culmination of four musicians each active in some of the most prominent musical forces around today including Sting, Van Morrison, Anoushka Shankar, Wild Flower, Ill Considered, Collocutor, Akram Khan, Dele Sosimi, Sarathy Korwar, Joy Crookes and more. On […]
Bremer McCoy | Natten (The Night)
“Natten”, which means “The Night” in Danish, draws inspiration from the end of day, that regenerative time under the constellations when our lives look different. Listeners might be quick to call it escapist—the music might be a reprieve from our busy lives. And while that’s one way to experience Natten, there’s also another, which has […]
Irreversible Entanglements | Open The Gates
Irreversible Entanglements’ third full-length album “Open The Gates” is ethereal shards of jagged onyx, a melancholic exploration of the post-colonial debris that surrounds us. Let’s watch and listen, as this platter snakes through the sandy ashes of possible histories, dialogs with a nervous present, and asks to be birthed into a holographic new future. “Together […]
The Brkn Record | The Architecture Of Oppression Part 1
The Brkn Record is a new project led and produced by Jake Ferguson, the co-founder and bass player for the UK’s foundational deep jazz outfit the Heliocentrics. With fellow Heliocentrics co-founder and legendary drummer Malcolm Catto, Ferguson has been a regular collaborator with globally recognised artists including Archie Shepp, Mulatu Astatke, Melvin Van Peebles, Orlando […]
bklyn | favourite things 10.21
Godtet, Makaya McCraven, WYS & Ouska, Vels Trio, Telemakus feat. Phøn, Javier Santiago, Tamuz, Steven Beddall, Rude Skøtt Osborn Trio, Reason feat. Isaiah Rashad, Benny The Butcher, Doe Boy, Problem feat. Snoop Dogg, Nubya Garcia feat. Nala Sinephro, The Motion Orchestra, Moor Mother feat. BFLY, Moods, Mike G feat. Lil B, Mick Jenkins, Lou Phelps, […]